Of the novelist Saul Bellow, a hero to that generation, Ozick wrote with pride that he “capsizes American English.”
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- Oct 2023
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- Sep 2021
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Does this mean he is free?
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spake
what does this mean?
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She saw her son and the Indians didn't shoo him away. They offer her kindness if not direct
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I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest
She hadn't practiced a sabbath before, why is she upset about this one?
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She didn't even pass through the water like a baptism entails she skirted over it in a raft. It even dictates that "my food did not wet"
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stoutest men, and sent them back to hold the English army in play whilst the rest escaped.
Men who would die for the benefit of the tribe. A war with the English army
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“Wait on the Lord, Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine Heart, wait I say on the Lord.”
it seems like she isn't exactly bothered by captivity. Although I understand her urging her not because she's pregnant and due soon. But shouldn't she at least think about running away too if she's captive and unhappy.
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chapter of Deuteronomy
What is the significance to this chapter?
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One of the Indians that came from Medfield fight, had brought some plunder, came to me, and asked me, if I would have a Bible, he had got one in his basket. I was glad of it, and asked him, whether he thought the Indians would let me read? He answered, yes. So I took the Bible,
They treat captives with more kindness than the Englishmen do. They still let her have access to religious texts.
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Then they went and showed me where it was, where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it.
They took the time to bury it upon a hill and to tell her where her baby was buried
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my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life on Feb. 18, 1675. It being about six years, and five months old.
No one should go through the death of a baby. Why is there no distinguishing language about the baby? no possessive descriptions or even a name
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Then I took oaken leaves
Seems like herbal remedies which are common from pagans and Native Americans
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and my child’s being so exceeding sick,
I thought her children died??
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One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor sick babe in my lap.
It seems to be that the once off act of kindness might actually be a pattern
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still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.
God's mercy and love kept them alive through to the morning
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but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail.
Why is God with her all of a sudden? I'm sensing a theme of Christianity and praising the Lord.
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One of the Indians carried my poor wounded babe upon a horse
Quite interesting since they are 'barbaric' creatures. Why would they carry her wounded baby on a horse showing kindness to her?
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All was gone, my husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay; and to add to my grief, the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward), my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home and all our comforts—within door and without—all was gone (except my life), and I knew not but the next moment that might go too.
Alluding to how the Englishmen killed the Natives and took them slaves as a way of profit.
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one-eyed John, and Marlborough’s Praying Indians
Are these characters to be followed up on?
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Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.
Shows the disconnect that English people felt at the time and the animistic view of Native Americans that was portrayed.
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“What, will you love English men still?”
Her being in Native American territory somehow denotes her English nature?
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- Sep 2018
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Isaiah 55.8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” And also that [in] Psalm 37.5: “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.”
Focusing on the specific word "way", Jesus Christ states in the book of John "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6. It seems to me that Mary is finding comfort or "revival" within these specific verses because they have to do with submission of one's human will to that of God's will.
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Mine eyes have seen
"Mine eyes have seen" is a phrase that comes up numerous times throughout scripture (Luke 3:20) and it is also in the popular hymn, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" A song which evokes a lot of faith and patriotism for many Americans
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Down I sat, with my heart as full as it could hold, and yet so hungry that I could not sit neither; but going out to see what I could find, and walking among the trees, I found six acorns, and two chestnuts, which were some refreshment to me.
Again, hunger comes up. Mary speaks of both the need for nourishment both physically and spiritually.
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- Feb 2017
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Photo of Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin: three of the most prominent African American writers of the Civil Rights era. Image credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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- Jul 2015
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or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white,
This is such a powerful articulation--borrowed from Baldwin as the epigraph makes clear--of the social construct of whiteness.
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the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak.
A riff on the title of TNC's forthcoming book, itself a a riff on WEB Du Bois's famous description of black experience in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). As he opens that book in a chapter entitled "Of Our Spiritual Strivings":
BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it.
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JUL 4, 2015
Hard not to relate this piece to another great statement of African American experience: Frederick Douglass's 1841 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
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- May 2015
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canvas.instructure.com canvas.instructure.com
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undetermined momentousness
Such an ambivalent phrase. The narrator seems to be claiming that this is a "moment" unparalleled in its significance. Yet this significance is "undetermined"; it remains unclear exactly how the moment is significant.
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- Feb 2015
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www.triquarterly.org www.triquarterly.org
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Do you remember the day, baby, you drove me from your door?
A line from Elvie Thomas's "Motherless Child Blues":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj23UrVF80
The trope of the motherless child is a popular one in African American art. Of course the destruction of families was a major consequence of the slave trade and the institution of slavery.
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